Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah. Generally speaking, I am a historian of the modern Middle East. My research examines intellectual networks and cultural production of diverse intellectuals (ethnolinguistically, religiously, class-based, career-based, etc.) from Ottoman Iraq during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. I integrate their active participation in Ottoman imperial, Arab regional, local, and transnational intellectual networks. I analyze multilingual print media, neoclassical literature, private correspondences, memoirs, parliamentary debates, and Ottoman archival petitions. I am at work on my first book project, Eastern Lights: The Arab Renaissance in Iraq. My second book project is about the first newspaper published in Baghdad, Ha-Dover (“The Speaker”), which happened to be in the Hebrew script! (I have published several articles and chapters about that already).
I received my PhD in Islamic History from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My BA is from McGill University and my MA is from SOAS – University of London. I was a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, where the fellowship theme was Jewish Lives in Modern Islamic Contexts. I am part of an NEH-funded group research project to co-write a new textbook about Jews in the Modern Middle East. I have also participated in a 3-year group research project housed at the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, The Quest for Modern Languages: Between the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 1820-1948, about nationalisms and language.
I have previously taught Arabic, Advanced Writing, Islamic Studies, Political Theory, and many various Middle Eastern history courses at the University of Chicago, William & Mary, Skidmore College, Lewis University, Loyola University Chicago, and the University of Illinois-Chicago.
I am a Midwesterner who loves Montreal bagels, maps, and I am an Arsenal Football Club supporter.
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Dr. Annie Greene 